Ottar Jarl

{{Expand Spanish|date=May 2025}} {{Notability|date=December 2025}} '''Jarl Ottar''' or '''Ottar Jarl''' (?-970s) was a jarl of Götaland who appears in the ''Heimskringla'' (the ''Saga of Olaf Tryggvasson'') and in the ''Jomsvikinga Saga''.<ref name="o243">{{cite web | last=Period | first=Time | title=The Heimskringla: A History of the Norse Kings, vol. 1 | website=Online Library of Liberty | url=https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/anderson-the-heimskringla-a-history-of-the-norse-kings-vol-1 | access-date=2025-12-04|page=28}}</ref>

The ''Jomsvikinga Saga'' tells that Ottar was the maternal grandfather of Palnetoke, the Jomsviking.

In the ''Heimskringla'', Snorri Sturluson relates that Haakon Sigurdsson killed Jarl Ottar during an attack on Götaland for Harald Bluetooth.

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